The artistic image of Carmen Miranda in the Scenery of Mordernity.
Carmen Miranda. Carnavalização. Samba. Cinema. Barroco. Antropofagia.
The purpose of this work was to focus on the artistic image of Carmen Miranda, singer, actress and Portuguese-Brazilian comedian, as a symbolic representation of the national identity, from the beginning of her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1929 and representations of Latin America in the United States, starting in 1939. We sought to insert it in the context of modernity, when popular and Afro-Brazilian expressions joined forces to consolidate the "invention of samba" as Brazil's cultural heritage. Carmen Miranda was the main female figure who contributed to the construction of these agencies, for the emergence of what would become Brazilian popular music. Giving voice to the sambas and marches produced by the composers of the hill and white composers, as well as being one of the main stars of the first Brazilian sound films, called carnival. The essence of this work is to emphasize the "baroque performance" of Carmen Miranda, supported by such theoreticians as Severo Sarduy (1979, 1999), Eugênio D'Ors (1990), Omar Calabrese (1987), José Antonio Maravall 2009), Irlemar Chiampi (1998), Afonso Ávila (1997), Afranio Coutinho (1994), Gilles Deleuze (1995, 2005), and Brazilian music scholars such as José Ramos Tinhorão, Tárik de Souza, among others. Based on these premises, we conclude the research, proving that Carmen, through her international Bahian, creates new symbolic signs about the concept of nation and Latin American identity, transforming this fantasy, recycling, joining in her artistic performance elements of culture Popular, Baroque, resized by surplus, caricature, waste, luxury and stylization. A character that catalyzes the opinions of unanimity and divergence regarding the title of "Ambassador of Samba", she appropriates anthropophagically, Brazilian (internal) and American (external) culture, bringing a new, unique, neo-baroque performance, Being responsible for the baroqueization of these cultures and influencing an entire generation later.